TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 74, Issue 4 (August (2) 2008)

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In this Issue

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Nephrologists Sans Frontières

Women in nephrology: one mother's strategies for success in academic medicine

Kirsten L Johansen

Kidney Int 74: 401-402; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.338

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Journal Club

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Kidney Int 74: 403-404; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.347

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Commentaries

Macrophages and hypoxia in human chronic kidney disease

Lars-Peter Erwig

Kidney Int 74: 405-406; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.225

See also: Original Article by Eardley et al.

Lipid redistribution in renal dysfunction

Xiong Z Ruan, John F Moorhead and Zac Varghese

Kidney Int 74: 407-409; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.226

See also: Original Article by Zhao et al.

Does an apple a day put hypertension in play?

Joachim Jankowski and Thomas Günthner

Kidney Int 74: 409-410; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.223

See also: Original Article by Singh et al.

Wilms' tumor-1: a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside a kidney

Jordan A Kreidberg and Sunny Hartwig

Kidney Int 74: 411-412; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.307

See also: Original Article by Steege et al.

Do inflammatory cytokine genes confer susceptibility to diabetic nephropathy?

Shiro Maeda

Kidney Int 74: 413-415; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.291

See also: Original Article by Ng et al.

Gender differences in chronic kidney disease

Kunitoshi Iseki

Kidney Int 74: 415-417; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.261

See also: Original Article by Halbesma et al.
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Reviews

Tubuloglomerular feedback: mechanistic insights from gene-manipulated mice

Jurgen Schnermann and Josephine P Briggs

Kidney Int 74: 418-426; advance online publication, April 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.145

Progress in gene targeting: using mutant mice to study renal function and disease

Donald E Kohan

Kidney Int 74: 427-437; advance online publication, April 16, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.146

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Original Articles

Basic Research

Fructose-induced hypertension: essential role of chloride and fructose absorbing transporters PAT1 and Glut5

Anurag Kumar Singh, Hassane Amlal, Patrick J Haas, Ulrike Dringenberg, Stacey Fussell, Sharon L Barone, Regina Engelhardt, Jian Zuo, Ursula Seidler and Manoocher Soleimani

Kidney Int 74: 438-447; advance online publication, May 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.184

See also: Commentary by Jankowski & Günthner
Analysis and classification of B-cell infiltrates in lupus and ANCA-associated nephritis

Oliver M Steinmetz, Joachim Velden, Ursula Kneissler, Marlies Marx, Antje Klein, Udo Helmchen, Rolf A K Stahl and Ulf Panzer

Kidney Int 74: 448-457; advance online publication, June 4, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.191

Wilms' tumor protein (-KTS) modulates renin gene transcription

Andreas Steege, Michael Fähling, Alexander Paliege, Anja Bondke, Karin M Kirschner, Peter Martinka, Charlotte Kaps, Andreas Patzak, Pontus B Persson, Bernd J Thiele, Holger Scholz and Ralf Mrowka

Kidney Int 74: 458-466; advance online publication, May 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.194

See also: Commentary by Kreidberg & Hartwig
Fat redistribution and adipocyte transformation in uninephrectomized rats

Hai-Lu Zhao, Yi Sui, Jing Guan, Lan He, Xun Zhu, Rong-Rong Fan, Gang Xu, Alice P S Kong, Chung Shun Ho, Fernand M M Lai, Dewi K Rowlands, Juliana C N Chan and Peter C Y Tong

Kidney Int 74: 467-477; advance online publication, May 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.195

See also: Commentary by Ruan et al.
PGE2 inhibits basolateral 50 pS potassium channels in the thick ascending limb of the rat kidney

Ruimin Gu, Yan Jin, Yuanyuan Zhai, Lei Yang, Chengbiao Zhang, Wennan Li, lijun Wang, Shumin Kong, Yunhong Zhang, Baofeng Yang and Wen-Hui Wang

Kidney Int 74: 478-485; advance online publication, May 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.198

Effect of apelin on glomerular hemodynamic function in the rat kidney

Annette Hus-Citharel, Nadine Bouby, Alain Frugière, Laurence Bodineau, Jean-Marie Gasc and Catherine Llorens-Cortes

Kidney Int 74: 486-494; advance online publication, May 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.199

Clinical Research

The role of capillary density, macrophage infiltration and interstitial scarring in the pathogenesis of human chronic kidney disease

Kevin S Eardley, Chandrashekhar Kubal, Daniel Zehnder, Marcus Quinkler, Julia Lepenies, Caroline O Savage, Alec J Howie, Kirrenjit Kaur, Mark S Cooper, Dwomoa Adu and Paul Cockwell

Kidney Int 74: 495-504; advance online publication, June 4, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.183

See also: Commentary by Erwig
Gender differences in predictors of the decline of renal function in the general population

Nynke Halbesma, Auke H Brantsma, Stephan J L Bakker, Desiree F Jansen, Ronald P Stolk, Dick De Zeeuw, Paul E De Jong and Ronald T Gansevoort

Kidney Int 74: 505-512; advance online publication, May 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.200

See also: Commentary by Iseki
Myocardial fatty acid imaging identifies a group of hemodialysis patients at high risk for cardiac death after coronary revascularization

Masato Nishimura, Toshiko Tokoro, Masasya Nishida, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Satoru Yamazaki, Ryo Imai, Koji Okino, Hakuo Takahashi and Toshihiko Ono

Kidney Int 74: 513-520; advance online publication, June 4, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.211

An IL-6 haplotype on human chromosome 7p21 confers risk for impaired renal function in type 2 diabetic patients

Daniel P K Ng, Siti Nurbaya, Sandra H J Ye and Andrzej S Krolewski

Kidney Int 74: 521-527; advance online publication, May 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.202

See also: Commentary by Maeda
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Technical Note

Arteriovenous fistula in the rat tail: a new model of hemodialysis access dysfunction

Tao Lin, Catherine Horsfield and Michael G Robson

Kidney Int 74: 528-531; advance online publication, May 28, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.207

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The Renal Consult

Paroxysmal hypertension in a 48-year-old woman

Jennifer Hunt and Julie Lin

Kidney Int 74: 532-535; advance online publication, February 27, 2008; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.6

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Letters to the Editor

Letter regarding 'advisory about gadolinium calls for caution in the treatment of uremic patients with lanthanum carbonate'

Michael DL Smyth and Raymond D Pratt

Kidney Int 74: 536; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.170

Response to 'Advisory about gadolinium calls for caution in the treatment of uremic patients with lanthanum carbonate'

Silvio Aime, Caterina Canavese and Piero Stratta

Kidney Int 74: 536-537; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.177

A wearable hemofilter for continuous ambulatory ultrafiltration

Stanley Shaldon and Michael Lysaght

Kidney Int 74: 537; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.235

Response to 'A wearable hemofilter for continuous ambulatory ultrafiltration'

Victor Gura, Claudio Ronco and Andrew Davenport

Kidney Int 74: 537-538; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.238

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Make Your Diagnosis

The Case | Renal failure after percutaneous closure of a perivalvular leak

Barbara Labban and Jai Radhakrishnan

Kidney Int 74: 539-540; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.265

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Nephrology Image

Hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism from secondary amyloidosis FREE

Fumi Takemoto, Yoshifumi Ubara, Shinya Kaname, Hideyuki Katori, Naoki Sawa, Junichi Hoshino, Tatsuya Suwabe, Yasushi Higa, Shohei Nakanishi, Michio Nagata, Kenichi Ohashi and Kenmei Takaichi

Kidney Int 74: 542; doi:10.1038/ki.2008.14

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